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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce anti democratic attitudes and partisan animosity

Jan G. Voelkel, et al. (2024). Science. 386 (6719).

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PostedJuly 15, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics

Psychological underpinnings of partisan bias in tie formation on social media

Mohsen Mosleh, Cameron Martel and David G. Rand (2024). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.

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PostedJuly 15, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

Inoculation and accuracy prompting increase accuracy discernment in combination but not alone

Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, Puneet Bhargava, Hause Lin, Rocky Cole, Beth Goldberg, Stephan Lewandowsky, & David G. Rand (2024). Nature Human Behaviour. 8, pages2330–2341.

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PostedJuly 4, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMisinformation, 2024, Accuracy Prompts

Descriptive norms can “backfire” in hyper-polarized contexts

David G. Rand and Erez Yoeli (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(10), pgae303.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024

Accuracy prompts protect professional content moderators from the illusory truth effect

Hause Lin, Marlyn Thomas Savio, Xieyining Huang, Miriah Steiger, Rachel L Guevara, Dali Szostak, Gordon Pennycook, and David G Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(11), pgae481.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

Unraveling polarization: Insights into individual and collective dynamics

Kati Kish Bar-On, Eugen Dimant, Yphtach Lelkes, and David G Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus, 3(10), pgae426.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, `Review articles

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions

Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand (2024). Nature. 634, 609-616.

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PostedJuly 3, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science. 385(6714), eadq1814.

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PostedJuly 2, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, AI, Misinformation, Fact-Checking

Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online

Isaias Ghezae, Jillian J. Jordan, Izzy B. Gainsburg, Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, Robb Willer, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(8), pgae287.

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PostedJuly 2, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMisinformation, Politics, 2024, Social networks

Fact-checker warning labels are effective even for those who distrust fact checkers

Cameron Martel and David G. Rand (2024). Nature Human Behaviour. 8, 1957–1967.

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PostedJuly 2, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMisinformation, 2024, Fact-Checking

Academics are more specific, and practitioners more sensitive, in forecasting interventions to strengthen democratic attitudes

James Y. Chu, Jan G. Voelkel, Michael N. Stagnaro, Suji Kang, James N. Druckman, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS. 384(6699), 121 (3) e2307008121.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsPolitics, 2024, Crowdsourcing

Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and Vaccine-Skeptical Content on Facebook

Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science. 384(6699), eadk3451.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation, Crowdsourcing

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour

Anastasia Kozyreva et al. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation, `Review articles

Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter

Cameron Martel, Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(5), p.pgae161.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Social networks, Field experiments

Misinformation and harmful language are interconnected, rather than distinct, challenges

Mohsen Mosleh, Rocky Cole, and David G. Rand (2024). PNAS Nexus. 3(3), pgae111.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation

Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale

Cameron Martel, Jennifer Allen, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231190388

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
TagsMisinformation, Crowdsourcing, 2024, `Review articles

On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration

Cameron Martel et al. (2024). Psychological science, 35(4), 435-450.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Politics, Misinformation, Accuracy Prompts

The distorting effects of producer strategies: Why engagement does not reliably reveal consumer preferences for misinformation

Alexander J. Stewart, Antonio A. Arechar, David G. Rand, and Joshua B. Plotkin (2024). PNAS 121(10), e2315195121.

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PostedJuly 1, 2024
AuthorAntonio Alonso Arechar
Tags2024, Misinformation, Social networks, Computational Models

Featured Articles

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI


Thomas H. Costello, Gordon Pennycook, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Quantifying the impact of misinformation and vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook


Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, and David G. Rand (2024). Science

Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online


Gordon Pennycook, Ziv Epstein, Mohsen Mosleh, Antonio A. Arechar, Dean Eckles, and David Rand (2021). Nature

Scaling up fact-checking using the wisdom of crowds


Jennifer Allen, Antonio A. Arechar, Gordon Pennycook, and David Rand (2021). Science Advances

Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality


Gordon Pennycook and David Rand (2019). PNAS

 

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